The Sickly Abandoned Daughter: Lighting the Way and Shattering the Marquis's Schemes

A saying in the Great Ning Dynasty goes: When a witch lights the lamp, she can decide who lives and dies.

Yet the Ning Marquis’s Manor trampled that lamp into the mud. Shen Qingtang’s mother was falsely accused of colluding with the enemy, and Shen Qingtang, a “remnant of the traitor’s family,” became the sickly girl no one in the manor even noticed.

It wasn’t until a “wedding contract to bring good fortune” landed in her lap that she understood: the marquis’s manor didn’t want her alive. They wanted to trade her life for the heir’s final breath.

But as she clutched the tortoiseshell her mother had left behind and calculated the “deadly outcome” of this marriage from inside the bridal sedan, a bloodied figure suddenly leaped in from outside.

“Third Miss.” The assassin wiped the blood from his blade and snatched the candied fruit hidden in her bodice. “I killed the person who brought your wedding contract. You treat my knife wound. Deal?”

He didn’t know that the girl who coughed so much she seemed as fragile as a willow hid medical skills powerful enough to bring down a marquis’s house. And she never expected that the assassin who was always making her laugh would one day say, eyes red, “I’ll tend your lamp for the rest of my life.”